Re: [slim] Track vs Album Art

2014-02-07 Thread garym
RonM wrote: Ripping with dBpoweramp results in album art being embedded in each track file, as well as creation of the file folder.jpg in the album's folder. yes, but to clarify one minor point, dbpa *can* automatically do both, or it can do one or the other depending on one's settings

Re: [slim] Track vs Album Art

2014-02-07 Thread wcndave
Recoveryone wrote: First off when you rip a disk the album art is attach to the folder that the files was created, not each track. From time to time you will find that the rip did not combine the track titles with the album art and you would get no album cover or get the same track name for

Re: [slim] Track vs Album Art

2014-02-07 Thread Mnyb
Fyi LMS uses embedded art first then turns to the folder file if no embedded art exists . That can make it look random if a bunch of files is just orphaned in a folder and that folder also has some jpg files . For albums7singles LMS is most happy with a one folder per album structure . Also

Re: [slim] Track vs Album Art

2014-02-07 Thread wcndave
garym wrote: yes, but to clarify one minor point, dbpa *can* automatically do both, or it can do one or the other depending on one's settings (embeds only if album art is ticked in the metadata list). My personal process (using dpba to rip) is to create only a single file in the album

Re: [slim] Track vs Album Art

2014-02-07 Thread garym
wcndave wrote: Interesting. I use the multi-rip so I get both FLAC and MP3 with one action. Yeah, I could do this, but I've found that even when I'm fairly careful with my metadata, etc. while ripping I often find that I see something I want to tinker with after I've ripped. I use mp3tag

[slim] Track vs Album Art

2014-02-06 Thread wcndave
Hi, I keep all my art embedded in the MP3 files, so as I move them around devices they all work. I notice from time to time that a track is missing cover art, so I decided to sort it all out. I went through a list of all tracks with no art by simply searching for all files in windows explorer

Re: [slim] Track vs Album Art

2014-02-06 Thread Michael Herger
As you don't mention the LMS version you're using I'd suggest try 7.8. It has a bunch of artwork related fixes. -- Michael ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] Track vs Album Art

2014-02-06 Thread wcndave
mherger wrote: As you don't mention the LMS version you're using I'd suggest try 7.8. It has a bunch of artwork related fixes. Michael Thanks, I am using 7.7.2 as per http://www.synology.com/en-global/releaseNote/package/SqueezeCenter There doesn't seem to be a more recent release for

Re: [slim] Track vs Album Art

2014-02-06 Thread Recoveryone
First off when you rip a disk the album art is attach to the folder that the files was created, not each track. From time to time you will find that the rip did not combine the track titles with the album art and you would get no album cover or get the same track name for each track. Now if you

Re: [slim] Track vs Album Art

2014-02-06 Thread Mnyb
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Re: [slim] Track vs Album Art

2014-02-06 Thread Recoveryone
The more I look at the photos you attach I have to ask some questions 1. did you rip the whole album? 2. Is the single a d/l from a 3rd party? 3. Why in the album pic you have it listed as a single? and no genre?, but the single has all the proper info with it. I think you may find your

Re: [slim] Track vs Album Art

2014-02-06 Thread RonM
Recoveryone wrote: First off when you rip a disk the album art is attach to the folder that the files was created, not each track. From time to time you will find that the rip did not combine the track titles with the album art and you would get no album cover or get the same track name for